Nation music star Charlie Daniels handed away in 2020. Nevertheless, the long-lasting singer’s son found his father was seemingly talking from the grave about America at the moment.
Charlie Daniels Jr. is the son of the well-known nation legend, Charlie Daniels. After his father handed away, Junior, as he’s identified, took over his dad’s web site, solely to find that weblog posts that his father had written had been nonetheless eerily related at the moment. A type of posts is from 2015 on Labor Day, and Charlie begins out by quoting the Bible verse 2 Thessalonians 3:10: “The one who’s unwilling to work shall not eat.”
“We got here up in a society the place work ethic was honed and drilled into younger people’ heads from the time they might stroll,” Charlie stated. “It was properly understood that, when you took your toes out from below your mom’s desk, you had been by yourself, no person was going to present you something, that the one method you’ll survive can be by the sweat of your forehead.”
Charlie then reminisced about America again within the days when he was rising up. “I’ve picked cotton, cropped tobacco, pulled peanuts, labored within the log woods, and am no stranger to spine jobs and I contemplate it a blessing figuring out what actually laborious bodily work is all about,” he stated. “I wished my son to know the identical factor and in his early teenagers put him to work cleansing out horse stalls within the barn.”
The nation singer then pointed to the federal government as a part of the issue we see at the moment. “It appears that evidently below the present administration self-reliance, private duty, work ethic and the opposite traits that made America into the nation it’s, or was, (that’s a subjective situation) have been traded in for dependence on the federal government, and a ‘blame all of your issues on some outdoors drive, the world owes me a residing’ angle,”‘ Daniels wrote in 2015 when Barack Obama was within the White Home.
In one other submit, The Satan Went All the way down to Georgia singer lamented about America’s youth. “The mind-washed children who’ve had their psychological processes warped by some revolutionist school professor who regards [Saul] Alinsky and Karl Marx as prophets who indoctrinate younger minds with the lies about America and white folks being the reason for all of the planet’s issues and have to be stripped of their place on the planet,” Charlie Daniels wrote.
“Then there’s the senseless bunch who don’t know what they’re protesting, simply alongside for the journey, such because the younger girl who was just lately requested if she believed a statue of Winston Churchill in London must be eliminated, she replied, ‘I haven’t personally met him…’ ‘Nuff stated,” he added.
Charlie Daniels was additionally upset about those that demonize our police forces. “So, America in the event you don’t need to reside in a society-run amuck in the event you don’t need to have an armed escort to go to the grocery retailer, if you need peace and stability in your life, assist our police,” he declared. “And do it now, whereas it counts a lot.”
Greater than something, Charlie was a religious Christian. In a single weblog submit, he wrote, “My level people is that this world will get extra evil, extra harmful, extra immoral, and extra keen to name good evil and evil good day-after-day. It must be no shock to those that learn and consider the Bible as a result of it tells us of a day when simply such a factor will occur, and the actually scary factor is, it ain’t gonna get no higher, it’s solely going to worsen.”
In the long run, Charlie Daniels remained optimistic about America. He actually beloved this nation and trusted hard-working People to do the appropriate factor. His last submit was on July third, 2020, and he was desirous about our Independence Day.
“This yr, as we rejoice the 244th birthday of the best nation the world has ever identified, we’re beset with many issues, a few of our making and a few we’ve got no management over,” Charlie stated. “However, be that as it’s, America continues to be the best and I need to specific my private emotions about our beloved nation.” These emotions had been finest expressed in his music referred to as My Lovely America.
This then is America!
The land God blesses with every part
And no Eiffel Tower: no Taj Mahal,
No Alps, No Andes
No native hut, nor Royal Palace –
Can rival her superior magnificence,
Her numerous inhabitants, her monolithic majesty.
America the Free
America the Mighty
America the Lovely
Charlie Daniels actually was a rustic legend in addition to a patriotic American. In one in every of his last ideas about the way forward for America, he gave stable recommendation. “Till America begins electing leaders who’re keen to take the duty of their very own actions and the actions of these below their command there’ll by no means be street-level justice in America,” he wrote.
He then supplied a little bit of a warning, together with some knowledge, that also applies at the moment, saying, “Don’t give your vote to some jaded outdated charlatan or engaging younger firebrand with skin-deep skills and commitments. Measure twice, lower as soon as. Pray for our troops, our police, and the peace of Jerusalem. God bless America.”
